The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08


Farmers Alliance, A. j. Streeter, OF Illfnoi.
reelected president. AT u meeting in Chicag,
of National Butter, Cheese and Egg Asst
citation, H. b. Gurlcr of Illinois, elected pres
dent.
Nov. .is-National Cattle Growers and Nationt
Swine Breeders Association met In annual Sc,
sion mt Chicago.
Dec. Ex-Governor of Michigan issued pro,
lamation quarantining cattle from Cook Cour
ty, Ill.
CASUALTIEs.
Jan. d-Great havoc by storms and floods 1
portions OF Pennsylvania.
Northern railroad Mt Wilmington, Del. thre
bodies burned and several men injured.
Jan. 1O-Grcat storm on the Atlantic coast @
the Eastern States; several wrecks and loss O
life.
Jan. 13--Twelve men buried by oavng-in of al
ore-mine at Alburtis, Pa.
Jan. 23-Juckson (Mich.) poor-house burne,
to ground; i've lives lost
Feb 1O-One hundred thousand head OF cat
tie and one hundred persons frozen to deatl
within radius Of one hundred miles Of Dodg,
City. Kan, during the winter.
Feb. 16-Owing to floods in Boston and vicfn
ity more than ten thousand people were home
less: damage to property, S,UW,O0.
Mar. 1.-THE steamer Oregon, with eight hun
dred passengers on board. wrecked by collidinl
with u schooner twenty-five miles from New
York All on board saved Vessel valued a'
s1,a5D0DO.
May l1-Cyclone Mt Kansas City. Mo-, b,
which twenty-nine lives were lost twenty per
property. including the courthouse destroyed
May IA cyclone devastated Willinmspor'
and Attica, Ind. bridge at the latter place be
ing destroyed. and several persons killed. Also
the villages Of Vicy Springs and Green Ridge
Mo-. and Dayton and Zenia, O., suffered serious
ly. AT Xenia nearly one hundred houses swept
away and thirty-four lives lost.
June "A train fell through trestle at St
Stephens Station, s. c.; six persons killed
and many others fatally wounded.
Aug. l3-A dozen men lost their lives while
tearing down main building Of Now Orleans
Aug M-Fifty lives lost during the recent
Aug 29-The powder-magazine Of Latin &
Rand, near Brighton Park, ILL.,, was struck by
lightning and exploded; one man killed and six
Others fatally injured.
Aug. 31-Severe earthquake shocks along the
Atlantic coast, to the mississippi most severe
at Charleston, s. G., a large portion OF which
was destroyed and great suffering and deStitu-
tion existed among people. Niaety deaths fe-
suited
Sept; Flour men killed and seventeen badly
injured while tearing down building ut Indian
apols, Ind
Sept. 14-An excursion train collided with q
freight, on the Nickel Plate road, near Silver
Creek N. y; twelve persona killed and four
teen injured.
Oct. 5-Thirty persons killed and many wound
ed by boiler explosion on the steamer La Mas
cote, near Cape Girnrdeau.
Oct. PA hurricane swept along the Gulf
coast Of Texas, rendering hundreds OF people
destitute.
Oct. 14-Floods swept away the town OF Sa-
bine Pass and other towns in Texas, and over
Two hundred persons were drowned.
Oct. as-The limited express train on the ST.
Paul railroad ran into an open switch near Rio,
Wis., and thirty persons killed. Brakeman
Wells held responsible and arrested.
,r nov 1.-THE scnooners Menekannee : ana Mar
teen lives lost. The steamer Lucerne lost in
Lake Huron, her crew of nine men pcrishing.
Total loss by gale, S723,O 900.
Dec. BARK Mary Agnes dc Costa wrecked
near HALIFAX during gale; captain and crew OF
fourteen perished.
Dec. 6-Foundering of schooner Edith off
south coast New Foundland, by which the crew
thirteen persons) persisted.
Dec. 9-Locomotive explosion at Jersey Shore,
Pa, killed four men.
Dec. 1O-Total number OF vessels lost on
Lives lost, l3S
Dec. ls-Burning at Point Coupe, La, of j.
Over forty lives lost. Loss, $4,000.
Dec l5-Burning of Calumet Hotel at Pipes
ton, Mimi; a. S. Orcutt, Baptist clergyman,
Dec. 17-Natural gas explosion ut Kolsomo,
Ind, injured thirty five persons, twelve of them
seriously Whaling bark Atlantic wrecked OFF
coast Of San Francisco and twenty-five OF crew
lost.
Dec. 20-While fooling with pistol thought
shot James Adams, at Bunker Hill, Ind.
Dec. s1-Fiye men fatally injured by falling
rock in q coal mine near Scranton, Pa.
ers in the lookup burned to death.
CIVIC.
Apr. 7.-Grand Army OF the Republic OF the
Sioux City.
Apr s-Colonel Fred Grant gave to the
Loyal Legion of Chicago the saddle used by his
father at the surrender of Leo.
Apr 21.-The encampment Of the Grand
Army Of the Republic, of New York, began at
hnr so Twer+ieth aro.,r,mort ~, .ho
Grand Army Department Of Ohio. held at
Cleveland: Colonel A. l.. Conger, OF Akron,
elected Department Commander;
Tcmpars met at Richmond, Va.
May .6-Twenty-six men expelled from the
Grand Lodge OF the brotherhood OF Railway
Union Pacific.
June l5-Supreme Lodge of the Ancient Order
OF United Workmen, met at Minneapolis, Mimi.
July 14-Howard Douglass, of Cincinnati, was
elected Supreme Chancellor OF the Knights OF
Pythias at Toronto, Can.
Aug. 6-General Lucius Fairchild elected
Chief of the Grand Army OF the
Republic, Ut San Francisco.
Sept. 1.-THE Society OF the Army OF the Ten
nessec at its session at Rock Island, ILL.,, re-
elected General Sherman President
Sept. 20-Triennial Conclave OF the knights
Templar at st. Louis; every State and Terri
tory represented.
Sept. si-sovereign Grand Lodge OF Odd Eel
lows, In session at Boston, elected John II.
White. of New York. Grand Sire
Sept. 23-Grand encampment knights Tenn
plar, nt st. Louis, elected Charles koome, OF
New York, Most Eminent Grand Master. The
fifth annual meeting OF tho Union Veterans
convened at Trenton, N. j. II. Is. Manchester
OF Providence, X. l., elected Commander-in-
Chief.
Sept. aS-The twenty-sixth triennial convoca-
tion OF the Grand Chapter OF Royal Arch Masons
OF the United States, met at Washington, ID. G.
Oct ILLINOIS Masonic Orphans Home ut
Chicago dedicated by State Grand Lodge, as
sisted by 1--we thousand Tempars and M asons.
GRIMES.
Jan. l-William II. McNeal, president of the
Lancaster Bank ut Clifton, Mass., reported o
defaulter TO the amount OF sl00,0O.
Feb. 25-Dr. Edward II. Coates shot and killed
DR.. A. b. Keith Ut st. Louis.
Mar l1-An oged inmate Of the aims house
near Lebanon, Pa, threw paris green into q
kettle OF coffee, poisoning one hundred inmates,
ten or more OF them fatally.
Mar. l2-Pntr1cl, Ford and John Murphy, New
Orleans politicians, convicted OF the murder OF
Captain A. IL. Murphy, after having taken poi-
son TO escape the gallows and being partially
revived hanged in that city.
Mar. l3-An express train on the Rock Island
road fell into the hands OF masked robbers An
old express messenger named Kellogg Nichols,
OF Chicago, was killed and his safe robbed OF
$4,000.
Mar, 17--George @. Cannon, the polygamist,
failed to appear when his case was called NJ
Salt Lake, forfeiting &s5,000 bail...,A mob
repaired TO the courthouse ut Car
being tried for murder. They shot ten prison
ers and mortally wounded the remaining three.
Mar. ie-Henry w. Jaehne, Now York alder
man, arrested for bribery In connection with the
broadway railway franchise His trial began
May 10, and on the 2Oth he was sentenced to nine
years and ten months imprisonment ut Sing
Sing. James A. Richmond, president OF the
company, arrested April o, was ro-arrested Dot.
TO- Eleven aldermen were arrested April 13
- 4, eight In Octobor Alderman DUFFY turned